[maryz]

All possibilities and contingencies and alternate paths were known to God before He created any of them. And from among all possibilities He made His choice.

Then you don't believe in petitionary prayer? Do you think it's wrong and ineffectual or just ineffectual?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Then you don't believe in petitionary prayer? Do you think it's wrong and ineffectual or just ineffectual?

I believe what the Scriptures say -- that God hears all the prayers and answers all the prayers of His children, already knowing what they require before they even ask.

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." -- Matthew 6:6-8

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"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" -- 1 Corinthians 4:7